Fast Track for Deploying HPE FlexFabric Comware Technologies (H8D09S)

Detailed course outline

Module 1: Introduction-SME

• Welcome to Fast Track for Deploying HPE FlexNetwork Comware Technologies!
• Course schedule
• Introductions

Module 2: Basic Setup-SME

• Accessing the console of an HPE Comware switch
• Levels of access and privilege levels
• CLI introduction and navigation
• Basic configuration
• Interface configuration
• Troubleshooting

Module 3: Protecting Management Access

• Applying password protection to local and remote authentication
• Associating user roles with password and scheme authentication
• Implementing remote management with telnet, SSH, web, and SNMP access

Module 4: Management of Software and Configuration Files

• Understanding the boot up process of the HPE switches
• Understanding how to use the flash file system on the HPE switches
• Upgrading the operating systems on the HPE switches
• Managing configuration files on the HPE switches

Module 5: VLANs

• Reviewing VLANs and the various types of VLAN
• Understanding when to use each of the three VLAN port types
• Configure VLANs and assign IP addresses to VLAN interfaces
• Implementing basic routing on directly connected VLANs
• Verify connectivity within and between VLANs

Module 6: IP Services

• Implementing DHCP server and DHCP relay on Comware switches
• Implementing secure NTP on Comware switches
• Understanding and configuring basic logging options
• Implementing DNS to resolve names to addresses

Module 7: Spanning Tree Protocol

• Overview of pre-2004 IEEE 802.1D standard
• Overview of RSTP
• Overview of PVST+
• Overview and configuration of MSTP on Comware switches
• Configuration of STP security features on Comware switches

Module 8: Link Aggregation

• Reviewing problems with STP and load sharing with STP
• Introducing link aggregation
• Comparing and contrasting the different link aggregation types
• Configuring and verifying link aggregation on Comware switches

Module 9: IP Routing

• VLANs and routing
• Static routing
• Dynamic routing with RIP
• Dynamic routing with OSPF
• Single area OSPF configuration

Module 10: Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF)

• Understanding the technologies and concepts involving IRF
• Understanding the advantages that IRF provides
• Describing a split stack and how the Multi-Active Detection (MAD) protocol deals with this problem
• Configuring a simple IRF topology
• Verifying and troubleshooting an IRF topology

Module 11: Introduction to Intelligent Management Center (IMC)

• Understand the components of IMC
• Understand how to install IMC
• Understand how to access IMC
• Implement a basic configuration using IMC

Module 12: Access Control Lists (ACLs)

• Define ACL and identify the criteria by which ACLs select traffic
• Configure ACLs on HPE Comware based switches to select given traffic
• Apply static ACLs to interfaces to meet the needs of a particular scenario
• Examine an ACL configuration and determine the action taken on specific packets

Module 13: Quality of Service

• Configure HPE switches to honor the appropriate QoS marks applied by other devices
• Create a QoS policy that assigns a specified class of traffic to a priority queue
• Select and implement an appropriate strategy for queue scheduling
• Implement traffic policing policies that enforce the negotiated committed information rate (CIR),committed burst size (CBS), peak information rate (PIR), and excessive burst size (EBS) for a specified class of traffic
• Respond to congestion in advance by applying the appropriate traffic shaping and Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED) policies
• Determine the QoS mark that an HPE switch will assign to specific outbound traffic and, if necessary, adjust the mark

Module 14: Advanced Open Shortest Path First

• Deploy HPE products in single-area and multiple-area OSPF systems
• Use area definitions and summaries to create efficient and scalable, multiple-area designs
• Advertise routes to external networks in a variety of OSPF environments
• Promote fast, effective convergence during a variety of failover situations
• Use virtual links as required to establish nondirect connections to the backbone
• Implement OSFP authentication

Module 15: Exterior Border Gateway Protocol

• Establish and monitor eBGP sessions between your routers and Internet Service Provider (ISP) routers
• Advertise an IP block to multiple ISP routers
• Filter BGP routes as required for a dual-homed ISP connection
• Configure a BGP router to advertise a default route in OSPF or to redistribute and aggregate BGP routes, as appropriate

Module 16: IP Multicast

• • Route multicast traffic using Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode (PIM-DM) or Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM)
• Select and configure rendezvous points (RPs) based on particular environmental needs such as redundancy and efficient operation
• Minimize unnecessary multicast flooding
• Apply advanced controls such as source-specific multicasting (SSM) and administrative scopes to a PIM-SM deployment

Appendix A: Converged Infrastructure

• FlexFabric
• FlexCampus
• FlexBranch
• FlexManagement
• Software-Defined Networks (SDN)

Appendix B: Basic Network Design Concept

• Understanding the differences between the access, distribution, and core layers
• Comparing and contrasting a two-tier versus three-tier design
• Choosing appropriate links for connections
• Implementing the appropriate redundant solution
• Understanding IP addressing special needs
• Understanding good practices in OSPF designs